Interfacial flows is a research area focused on fluid motion in the presence of interfaces separating immiscible phases, such as liquid–gas or liquid–liquid systems, where interfacial tension, wettability, and curvature critically influence dynamics. It encompasses fundamental and applied studies of capillarity, Marangoni effects, thin-film dynamics, droplet and bubble motion, and interface instabilities under various driving forces (gravitational, inertial, viscous, or electrohydrodynamic). The field integrates continuum mechanics, interfacial thermodynamics, and multiphase flow modeling, often using advanced numerical methods and high-resolution experiments to elucidate transport, mixing, and pattern formation in systems ranging from microfluidics to large-scale industrial or environmental flows.
When water drains from the bottom of a vertical tube, it is followed by a thin film of liquid that can adopt complex and beautiful shapes. KAUST researchers have now studied exactly how these "fluted films" form and break ...
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In Associate Professor Jonathan Boreyko's Nature-Inspired Fluids and Interfaces Lab, Ph.D. student Jack Tapocik watched a disk-shaped chunk of ice resting on an engineered metal surface. As the ice melted, the water formed ...
General Physics
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An international research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon has, for the first time, succeeded in visualizing and quantifying the complex airflow dynamics directly above the ocean surface in high resolution. Using ...
Earth Sciences
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Physicists at the University of Liège have succeeded in sculpting the surface of water by exploiting surface tension. Using 3D printing of closely spaced spines, they have combined menisci to create programmed liquid reliefs, ...
Soft Matter
Jun 17, 2025
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Scientists at the University of Miami's Alfred C. Glassell Jr. SUrge‐STructure‐Atmosphere INteraction (SUSTAIN) laboratory conducted a first-of-its-kind study into how waves form and increase in windy and hurricane conditions. ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 14, 2025
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Research teams have established a theoretical method for designing smooth curved wall surfaces with variable cross-section shock tubes, and developed an integrated, high-intensity multifunctional shock tube device. Led by ...
General Physics
Apr 7, 2025
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A new technology has been developed that enables the manufacturing of thin films, which typically require complex processes, using only water and oil in just one minute. Professor Kang Hee Ku and her research team from the ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 21, 2025
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The commonplace phenomenon of liquid drops falling from a surface is—perhaps surprisingly—not yet fully understood by scientists. Understanding the complex interactions between the forces involved here would be helpful in ...
Soft Matter
Feb 11, 2025
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A team of researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has developed an innovative technique that allows the production of regular oil lenses of uniform size on the surface of water in a simple and reproducible ...
Soft Matter
Jan 30, 2025
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At Texas A&M University, one research lab is changing the game of droplet microfluidics, a technique that involves conducting experiments in nanoscale droplets of liquid in a controlled environment. The team has developed ...
Bio & Medicine
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